Enterprise Retail Solution

Client:

§  The client is Europe and the Middle East division of Office Depot, the number 1 reseller with 9.000 associates and sells office products and services through direct mail catalogs, contract sales forces, internet sites and retail stores.

Business  Need:

§  The client requires a centralized web based solution that will be used by concurrent 70+ Warehouse Users, 250+ Inventory Managers, and 500+ vendors in 14+ warehouses across European countries and UK to manage Appointment Scheduling, Discrepancy Reporting, On Time in Full Vendor Reporting, Stock Overview, Vendor Score Card functions in local languages and currencies

§  The new solution should integrate with existing SAP and AS/400 ERP solutions and replace current suite of similar tools ranging from solutions fully integrated into business systems through to standalone excel spreadsheets and access databases

Solution:

§  We provided dedicated distributed teams of optimal size and composition on BYT Engagement model with desired functional and technical competence for development of web based warehouse platform for Office Depot’s Staff/Vendor/Carrier to measure the performance of the Supply Chain

§  The solution is built around providing a comprehensive performance monitoring system which include detailed customize Reports/Dashboards, Supply Appointment Scheduling, Discrepancy, Vendor Score Card.

§  Complete back-office integration with Order Entry, Inventory Control, and Purchase Orders modules

§  Scalability to accommodate future business growth and allow Vendors /Carrier to login and view their Dashboards

§  Real-time multi-location inventory updates

§  Automated Workflows and Emails based on different events in Supply  Chain , Appointment Scheduling, Discrepancy reporting

§  Support for multiple picking methods with multi-location

§  Predefined emails templates which support multi-languages

§  Data security and confidentiality

Benefits:

§  Complete back-office integration with Order Entry, Inventory Control, and Purchase Orders modules

§  Scalability to accommodate future business growth and allow Vendors /Carrier to login and view their Dashboards

§  Real-time multi-location inventory updates

§  Customized reporting capability with export report data in to  .pdf and .xl s format

§  Automated Workflows and Emails based on different events in Supply Appointment Scheduling, Discrepancy

§  Data security and confidentiality

Technology Platform:

§  Microsoft .NET 4.5 framework with SQL Server 2012 Server (including SSRS, SSIS & SSAS and Service Broker), Singleton,  Observer, Iterator, Factory Design Pattern, C#, ASP.NET, Web Services, SOAP, XML, WCF, TDD with NUnit, SVN, CSS, HTML, JQuery, ExtJS, Ajax.

§  Mobile Platform : iOS, Android technology

§  Databases : SQL Server 2012